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The Nāṣirī Generations 170.2.8

Tabakat-i-Nasiri 170.2.8

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170.2.8

— which Briggs has read for arrow] showed the greatest audacity and agility, and, from the top of his elephant, inflicted such a wound [with what weapon not said] on the upper part of the arm of the Sultan that he was nearly falling from his horse. A Khalj youth on foot [there is not a word about his chiefs coming to his rescue] discovered it, jumped up behind him on the horse, and, taking the Sultan in his arms, bore him out of the battle-field, and conveyed him to the forces of the runaway nobles which were twenty kuroh off; and the tumult and disquiet which had arisen, consequent on the defeat of the army of Islam, and not finding the Sultan, subsided.” . . . There is not a word about